Performance

IT

WordPress Automatic Updates

Database Backup

Social media

ShareThis a cool plugin that allows social bookmarking and twittering to just about every service on the planet worth linking to. It’s the cool little green thingy at the end of each post, that expands to a directory of places to link to. OR Sociable

Rich media

pb-embedFlash a quick way to embed FLV and SWF flash from youtube and your own sites using web best practices , basically just a bracketed url to the file you want and some optional parameters for height and width.

http://kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed/wp a utility that lets you use flash in any part of the site that uses SWFObject 2.1 to do the progressive enhancement.

Coding related

ANTI-SPAM / Security

Cookies for Comments – sets a cookie that must exist for a comment to be allowed through, defeats most bots

Akismet - a spam filter for comments that make it through and trackbacks.

Before you ask for technical help from me…

The tools and technical advice on this site are given freely of no charge, with the goal of making your life easier and the world a better place. This blog is a hobby for me cause I enjoy it, not because it's my core business.

Everything I put on here are stuff that works for me, but I recognize I may miss steps, and it maybe impossible for non-technical people to implement the steps I outline.

Given technology has the shelf life of milk sitting out of the fridge, so UI I show and steps may change or worse they may not work at all on newer versions.

Now here's the deal. I get a fair amount of questions, and unfortunately I have to focus on my paying customers so generally it is not possible for me to support tutorials and tools given for free. While I may and often do respond, I make no promises to do so, especially in a timely manner.

So if you need technical help, especially in a hurry, please seek a accessible trained professional, there are tens of thousands of them in the world who desperately want to help you RIGHT NOW, and will likely only cost you $20, 15 minutes or less, AND you'll have a "tech saftey buddy" who can help you with all sort of the inevitable tech stuff that I'm sure you'll want to do in the future. It's almost as good as having me by your side, except they will actually return your emails in a timely manner.